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Word: pranking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same prank which replaced Lowell's picture with a Goya portrait of a woman in a Victory suit, the Bellboys' exhibit case was filled with open books bearing such titles as "The Bedroom Companion, or a Cold Night's Entertainment" and "The Freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell's Portrait Replaced By Woman in Victory Suit | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...missing silverware was finally discovered yesterday afternoon, and a quizzing of the nearest entry-dwellers failed to produce any information concerning the prank. Two strong janitors were needed to get the barrel down stairs, and onlookers wondered how one man, in one trip, could have carried the whole load at once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Regain Silver Lost In Daring Spoonerman Raid | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

...This started as a prank but it's passed the Halloween stage now. . . . Satan finds work for idle hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Halloween Trick | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

With undergraduates of the '20s, whom he understood and liked, Hoppy was on intimate terms. Upperclassmen had a standing prank they played on him: they would leave a note on a freshman's desk telling him to call Hanover 65 (Hoppy's number) at 6:05 in the morning and "ask for Ernie, he's in a jam." Hoppy got scores of such calls each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hoppy's Generation | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Authorities, disturbed by the prank, attempted in vain to track down the perpertrators, but remarked that it must have been pretty expensive, probably costing around $20. They suspected that at least five men had taken part in the trick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Fooled by Hoax "Dean's Office" Post Card | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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